Example sentences of "[pron] should have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 2 | The British Horse Society is anxious to find out why a third of them should have happened in this year alone . |
| 3 | I should have transferred to pastoral a while back . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's a question I should have asked before this , Steve . ’ |
| 5 | The army was all right , but then I should have gone into agricultural life . |
| 6 | I should have gone to medical school . ’ |
| 7 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 8 | I should have thought about this before , he thought . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I should have thought of that . |
| 10 | I should have thought of that . |
| 11 | Sorry — I should have thought of that before . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have that to tell you that I should have told before this , since it has to do with the issue that is now in dispute among all here . |
| 13 | The general election which should have come by 1940 seemed unlikely to lead to the return of a majority Labour government but it was postponed because of the declaration of war on 3 September 1939 . |
| 14 | We rushed him to the veterinary hospital , where he was given an antidote which should have worked within 20 minutes . |
| 15 | Her humanity was something useless to her , something that came from the Denver NoGo and which should have died in Spanish Fork with Andrew Jean and the others . |
| 16 | Because you should have you should have heard by this time . |
| 17 | You should have seen to this . ’ |
| 18 | He said , ‘ Shall I get a bottle of wine ? ’ and Val said , disagreeably and truthfully , ‘ You should have thought of that some time back ; it 'll all go cold . ’ |
| 19 | Louise : You should have thought of that before you started fooling around . |
| 20 | Cherub , you should have thought of this mate . |
| 21 | It was the perfect cue for Gazzer to say : ‘ You should have thought about that before you shoved him in , should n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
| 23 | A hundred years from now , the march of the physical sciences — oh , Albé , you should have talked to old Erasmus Darwin about that subject ! |
| 24 | Which is what she should have done in first place . |
| 25 | Surely she should have thought of this before breeding from Poppy . |
| 26 | She spoke as if she should have known about more than the dying town . |
| 27 | She should have started at seven — and found the body almost immediately . ’ |
| 28 | Within the next five years we should have moved into new ( larger ? ) premises designed around a more ergonomic layout than the present facilities . |
| 29 | We should have known after this start that life with Holmes would never be dull . |
| 30 | They should have gone into that game against Wales having forgotten the close match against Australia in the World Cup . |